For some reason, even tho I always opt out off major OSX version updates, I came back after after fetching some coffe only to be met by the Sonoma update. I was horrorfied but went to work getting everything optimized and hoping it would be okay.
Both Cubase 12 & 13 at first seemed to even perform better than Logic but then it began. No matter how big or small buffert size setting, processing precision, sample rate, interface, you name it! Its still the same. Even on small projects it goes from zero to dropping out and it all seems to come from ASIO guard itself. No load on either CPU, disk or memory seems apparent, actually it seems like it doesn’t even want to fully utilize the memory when I still have over 20gb left just waiting to get to work.
The thing is that the same seems to occur in CS12 now aswell and I’ve tried to locate if it would come down to any plugin in the project but as of now there doesn’t seem to be a culprit there besides Halion 7 being way slower. I then went on to recreate the exact same project, with exactly the same plugins but in Logic and everything was fine there with zero dropouts so what’s going on? What have missed?
What Cubase 12 & 13 have in common against Logic is ASIO which also looks like the reason for the drop. Could there be some kind of global setting to make it use the RAM more as it’s now just sits there with over 20gb free of 32. Should add that I also only uses SSD and have tried moving the projects between the internal and external drive.
Has anyone else experienced this with Intel OSX after Sonoma update? Or any issues with Waves 14? Have you got it to work or am I doomed to start over? I will of course do it if needed but that will be such a pain with licenses and stuff so if someone have a better technical understaning in regards to OSX maybe can point me to some setting in Sonoma our audio driver which I’m unaware. Usually goes PC as main recording device.
My Specs:
MacBook Pro 16-inch, 2019
CPU : 2,6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7
GPU : AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 4 GB / Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB
Memory: 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4
Storage: Internal Apple 500GB SSD / External Samsung 2TB SSD